Download e-book for kindle: A History of Russia and Its Empire: From Mikhail Romanov to by Kees Boterbloem

This transparent and centred textual content presents an creation to imperial Russian and Soviet historical past from the crowning of Mikhail Romanov in 1613 to Vladimir Putin’s new time period. via a constant chronological narrative, Kees Boterbloem considers the political, army, monetary, social, non secular, and cultural advancements and an important turning issues that led Russia from an unique backwater to superpower stature within the 20th century. the writer assesses the large cost paid through those that made Russia and the Soviet Union into this type of hegemonic strength, either in the community and globally. He considers the complicated and sundry interactions among Russians and non-Russians and investigates the explanations for the amazing durability of this final of the colonial powers, whose dependencies weren't granted independence till 1991. He explores the continued legacies of this fraught decolonization approach at the Russian Federation itself and at the different states that succeeded the Soviet Union. the single textual content designed and written particularly for a one-semester direction in this four-hundred-year interval, it's going to entice all readers attracted to studying extra in regards to the historical past of the folks who've inhabited one-sixth of the earth’s landmass for centuries.

The pink Army's summer time offensive of 1944 opposed to Hitler's Wehrmacht was once extraordinary when it comes to its scale, scope, and strategic cause and influence. This examine information how the pink military finished this feat within the phrases of these people who deliberate and orchestrated the offensive.

The e-book unearths the interconnection among social, cultural and political protest routine and social and fiscal adjustments in a post-communist nation like Russia nonetheless ruled through bureaucratic rulers and "oligarchs" controlling all easy industries and mining actions. these pursuits also are dominating Russia’s international coverage and clarify why Russia didn't achieve changing into an essential component of Europe.

Yugoslav army cooperation with West emerged after the country’s cut up with the U. S. S. R. and its allies in 1948. It got here as a shock for plenty of, due to the fact that Yugoslavia was once one of many staunchest fans of Soviet politics. in spite of the fact that, confronted with attainable army escalation of the ideological, political, and fiscal worsening of family with the East, the Yugoslav management fast grew to become to their former “class enemies.